say for me love

If anybody asks you where your coming from

Say love, say for me love

today i went to one of my best friend alex's volleyball game at slu.  she plays for xavier and they were playing against slu this weekend so i thought it would be a perfect opportunity to see her play before i leave. it was a great time, even though they lost and alex wasn't able to play due to her bum tail bone...and while i was there, surrounded by her family and our friends and her boyfriend, i was just in awe of the love that people can have for one another. her elderly grandparents flew out from sweetwater, texas so they could see her. her boyfriend drove all the way from xavier (which is in cincinnatti) for six hours just to come to a game that he knew she probably wasn't going to be playing in.  many of the parents of old team mates from her highschool select team came to watch her.  no one was mad that she didn't end up playing.  no one complained about how far they came to get there.  everyone was watching intently...not because they're all volleyball fanatics but because they knew that alex would want them to.  and when alex came over to the bleachers after the game to talk to us, everyone's faces lit up and we were all so ecxited to see her and hug her and talk to her.  it just hit me that people have such a large capacity to love others.  and even though that can be forgotten and abandoned a great deal of the time, it's moments like this that give me so much hope in humanity. yeah sure, the world has a hell of a lot of problems....but people DO love each other. people DO care. i love seeing people and especially families love on one another. and it makes me excited that someday i might be so blessed to create a family that loves each other and takes care of one another.